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Anton Corbijn: Inside out (2012)

Director

Klaartje Quirijns

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (90 minutes), £12.99

Film portrait of photographer, filmmaker and video artist Anton Corbijn. The film features interview with Corbijn’s friends and family, as well as artists who have worked with him, such as Boy George, Lou...

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Afghan Star (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Music; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £6.99

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, among their many edicts was banning popular music, considering it a corrupting and sacrilegious influence. Though Taliban was swept from power in 2001,...

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Thomas Lang: Creative Control (2004)

Subject

FE; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 minutes), £39.99

Thomas Lang presents the unique and innovative system that he has used to develop his impressive speed, control, finesse and coordination A step-by-step system demonstrating how to hone drumming chops to...

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Tropicalia (2013)

Director

Marcel Machado

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

Marcel Machado’s documentary charts the history of the 1960s Brazilian counter-cultural movement known as Tropicália, which expressed itself in theatre, film, art and poetry, but is perhaps best known...

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Statistic, A Reminder, A (1981 Video)

Producer

Dennis Woolf

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

Report from Birmingham on youth unemployment and the importance of music in the lives of these young persons. Highlights of a free reggae concert by two Birmingham groups - The Beat and UB40 - for the...

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Bigot Songs: Ethnic Prejudice Recordings (2008)

Subject

History; Music; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 180 minutes), $9.95

Phonograph and cylinder recordings from the early 1900s, featuring songs celebrating prejudices society is still freeing itself from. Over 180 minutes packed into 75 MP3s on 1 CD. For full title list see...

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Punk Singer, The (2014)

Director

Sini Anderson

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £9.99

Documentary about Kathleen Hanna, singer with the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, who as leader of the Riot Grrrl movement, became a feminist icon and spokeswoman.

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Century in Sound, The (2000 Audio)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Compact disc. ? min., 2000 sale: £8.99 (inclusive)

A survey of sound recordings from the British National Sound Archive ranging over the whole of the 20th century, in which all the curatorial sections of the NSA are represented: popular music, classical...

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Weavers, The: Wasn’t That a Time? (1981 Film)

Director

Jim Brown

Producer

Jim Brown; H Leventhal; George C Stoney

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A portrait of the Weavers - Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and Lee Hays - as they prepare for a final reunion concert (November 1980) in Carnegie Hall. An affectionate look at the group which...

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IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

aka: House of Life, The

Director

David Byrne

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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